Saturday, June 30, 2012

Homemade Gift Exchange

I love participating in the Homemade Gift Exchange over at Craftaholics Anonymous. Linda does such a good job every time, despite the hard work it must be! She does them twice a year, in the summer and the winter. This time was a little different, we received a name, but the person that got our name was different. I think I liked it this way! I got Aimee. She has a blog here.
I have the hardest time coming up with gifts for these! I come up with great, elaborate and beautiful ideas, and then procrastinate run out of time to do as much as I want. I really wanted to make something with my Silhouette, but I also had some cute fabric that was calling my name. I would've combined the two, but nothing came to mind.
Aimee is a librarian, so I assumed that she liked books as much as I did, that seemed to be the recurring theme I kept going back to for her.

I ended up making a fabric bookmark I found here. Then came up with my own using the Silhouette and a quote I love about reading that I put on the back. I had some left over book pages I had used for other crafts that I cut and mod podged on to some clothespins. I wasn't so sure about that last one, I was worried with her being a librarian that may be offensive! I was also going to put a magnet on the back of them, but opted out so she could use them in other ways too. I hope she enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed getting to do a little crafting!

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I am the luckiest lady in the world. I have an amazing husband (Clayton) and we have three great kids. I get to be a stay at home mom, which I love and I am so blessed to have found someone that feels as strongly about it as I do. I couldn't ask for more. (ok, maybe a couple more hours of sleep and a housekeeper!)